As the European Commission reviews the ePrivacy Directive, Facebook argues that applying legal obligations designed for telecom firms to online services would be “unnecessary, discriminatory and disproportionate,” The Irish Times reports. Facebook said online services are different from “traditional telecoms services,” and could not be a perfect replacement for them, while adding telecoms also have more access to data. “Many information society services today are based on free, advertising-funded business models that keep the services free of charge for the user by allowing advertisers to show their advertisements to them,” Facebook wrote in their submission to the European Commission. “Regulation should not unduly interfere with or stymie entities’ freedom to choose and develop innovative business models where there is a clear consumer demand for these business models.”
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